Readit Newsmarcodave commented on IDEs we had 30 years ago blogsystem5.substack.com/... · Posted by u/titaniumtown
out of the loop, how is terminal-based development related to FAANG?
I guess it's caused by the "brogrammer" culture of Silicon Valley, where you would get hazed if you dared using a GUI-based tool.
Also, being more focused on open-sourcing their tools (because other companies do not open source them, therefore being un-cool), which begets a "simpler" and "engineeristic" approach to UX, which do not need UI experts and designers.
Imagine valuing your time so little you waste it trying to block instead of just abstaining or using premium.
When Facebook started being user hostile I stopped using it wholesale.
Anti Google YouTube folks haven’t gotten the message yet.
If you make 25 an hour - the bottom decile wage for software engineering - and waste more than half an hour on this a month, idk what to say. That’s a minute a day. Chop chop.
By the way if you consider YouTube premium for family or friend group of 5 you’re paying 5 bucks a month. That means you have 12 minutes a month to waste, or about 24 seconds a day.
If you’re at a typical FANG company making entry salary you have about 5 seconds a day to waste.
Time is precious. Stop wasting it trying to fight ads when you’re capable of paying to get rid of them.
If everyone would reason like you, do you think Google won't raise premium prices even more, or put ads for "lesser" premium users, a-la Netflix base subscription?
marcodave commented on Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies nytimes.com/2023/11/28/te... · Posted by u/cebert
marcodave commented on I skipped to the ending danangell.com/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/BHSPitMonkey
Few people write blog posts to say "I worked at Foo Corp and it was okay." There's a strong bias toward horror stories. There's also a HN selection bias: a story about FAANG is a lot more likely to be upvoted than a story about some small startup.
I have friends in all the big tech companies and I don't think any of them is fundamentally better. They all have their idiosyncrasies, they all have good teams and terrible ones, they all have a ton of red tape.
I think the main problem is that they built their reputation by claiming they invented a new way of doing business and a new way of treating their employees. They were supposed to be the antidote to the corporate culture at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and whatnot. But ultimately, they converged on pretty much the same.
Funnily, isn't it what happens with "disruptor" companies like Uber and Airbnb? first they revolutionize the taxi/hotel market, then they slowly become what they were supposed to revolutionize
marcodave commented on I skipped to the ending danangell.com/blog/posts/... · Posted by u/BHSPitMonkey
"money doesn't matter"
I can say that the people who say this DO NOT keep an excel on their desktop where every 1st of the month they go around their accounts, investments, etc. and enter the 'updated values' and they see their net-worth growing month-by-month. Money matters (when you are planning your vacations, when you get seriously ill, when you want to buy a new house/car/laptop), etc. Only naive people say that money don't matter. There are MANY things that matter, money is one of them.
As someone who just this year started to keep track of the money across the months, I can say that you get some sort of high when you get close to payday and you see the line going up.
marcodave commented on Why banks are suddenly closing down customer accounts nytimes.com/2023/11/05/bu... · Posted by u/ljosa
The main issue isn't firing a customer (although it's bad), but locking up their money. It's not like they say "hey, we want to stop doing business with you, please transfer all your money to some other bank within a week or take out your money at the nearest branch", or do they?
Locking up the money is basically theft, but I'm sure the law and regulations say otherwise.
If that would be the case, won't there then be the risk of creating a short-circuit which would benefit the actual money launderers/criminals?
Say, I have 3 millions somehow deposited in the $bank_where_i_put_my_shady_money, I want to take/move the money, but doing so will raise some eyebrows, so I deliberately try to debank myself so that I can get all my money cash OR move it to $partner_bank
marcodave commented on Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address home.omg.lol... · Posted by u/cdme
Damn, like.omg.lol was already taken.
rly.omg.lol is still available though (as of now :p)
marcodave commented on Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned wsj.com/articles/amazon-t... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Agreed. I personally have seen divorces and breakdowns of entire families and friend groups of my colleagues, but what is most important is making sure that they stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and look to further improve themselves for the company.
spoils19 has been awarded +200 corp tokens, congratulations!
The reality is there is plenty of space in the software industry to trade off velocity against "competent" software engineering. Take Instagram as an example. No one is going to die if e.g. a bug causes someone's IG photo upload to only appear in a proper subset of the feeds where it should appear.
There's a lot of incompetence by choice.
In the software engineering world, we have TOSs that deny any liability if the software fails. Why?
It boils my blood to think that the heads of CrowdStrike would maybe get a slap on the wrist and everything will slowly continue as usual as the machines will get fixed.
People died for this bug.